The Rise of Private Digital Spaces: From Social Media to Location Sharing
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This article examines the shift from public social media platforms to private digital spaces like group chats and location-sharing apps, exploring the "strange, dangerous intimacy" of social location sharing. The piece investigates how digital privacy and social dynamics are evolving as people retreat from traditional social media to more intimate, semi-private digital environments.
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· 5 pulledThe digital world of 2025 is an increasingly dark place—promises of an end-of-history, neoliberal technotopia have foundered on the rocks of monopoly, nativism, and a fractured epistemological understanding of the world.
I've personally seen the retreat from the 'digital public square' to semi-private spaces: group chats, invite-only servers, forums.
Some of them are 'group chats that rule the world.' Indeed, we seem to be, collectively, past 'Peak Social Media.'
This week, Julia Kieserman investigates the rise of a different sort of digital private space: social location sharing.
The strange, dangerous intimacy of social location sharing
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